{"id":6106,"date":"2014-04-17T20:44:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T03:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/04\/17\/argentine-giant-extreme-close-up\/"},"modified":"2014-04-17T20:44:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T03:44:37","slug":"argentine-giant-extreme-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/04\/17\/argentine-giant-extreme-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine Giant Extreme Close Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/xtreme-close-up.jpg' title='Extreme Close Up'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/xtreme-close-up.jpg' alt='Extreme Close Up' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you get past the inhospitable cactus spikes and look closely at their beautiful flowers, you can see just how delicate and beautiful these desert plants can be. This is a close-up of one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/04\/14\/triplet-argentine-giant-flowers\/\">three Argentine Giant Cactus<\/a> (Echinopsis candicans) flowers that bloomed on Monday. I took this image on Tuesday morning before the flowers wilted. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>I saved one of the flowers in hopes of developing into a fruit from which I can extract seeds. That is, if the javelinas don&#8217;t eat it first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you get past the inhospitable cactus spikes and look closely at their beautiful flowers, you can see just how delicate and beautiful these desert plants&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}